Word: goner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boring movie, since every evil-looking character can quickly be dubbed a "goner." Why wait two hours to see it happen? The dialogue is almost nonexistent, unless witless one-liners count. For instance, a fair young maiden says to Aramis (Charlie Sheen) during a rather carnal Bible lesson: "When you started talking bout original sin, I lost control and became impassioned...
...around the living room. The family, plus two Chow show dogs and two Persian cats, is living in Mike's blue 1992 Bronco; Mike sleeps on the roof. Nearby, the roof of the family's second car, a 1977 Cutlass, is barely visible above the water. "It's a goner," says Mike...
...Kraft remarked that she is "an eloquent listener." Her brilliant blue eyes never rake the room but stay focused on her companion. "She coaxes secrets out of men because she works at it," observes Holbrooke, just named ambassador to Germany. "When she goes after a man, he is a goner...
...Bill Clinton seeks to understand his quick transit from hero to goat (and hopefully back to hero) -- the roller-coaster common to the modern presidency -- this assessment from a 1983 New York Times editorial has become a totem among senior Administration officials. "Reagan was a goner, right?" says a Clinton adviser. "But then the business cycle took an upturn, and he won big a year later. Reagan's ups and downs remind us to take the long view. Bill Clinton won't be dead until he's laid out with his sax." It's simple, the President himself explained privately...
...happens, Bonfire was only an ordinarily bad film and an ordinary box- office bomb; Robert Redford's Havana cost as much and earned far less. The reason Bonfire was a goner from the git-go is that it was based on the one '80s novel every media savant had read and, mentally, already filmed. Even a reverent adaptation would have been fitted with an Armani shroud...